Windows Insider Preview is here today, and Microsoft is already working on the next version to bring you more great features. Join the Windows Insider Program to make sure you get all the new features that are on the way. If youíre okay with a moving target and donít want to miss out on the latest stuff, keep reading. Insider Preview could be just your thing.

Get Insider preview builds only if you

Want to try out software thatís still in development and like sharing your opinion about it.

Donít mind lots of updates or a UI design that might change significantly over time.

Really know your way around a PC and feel comfortable troubleshooting problems, backing up data, formatting a hard drive, installing an operating system from scratch, or restoring your old one if necessary.

Installing Windows 10 Insider Preview on a device that never had an activated copy of Windows 10 on it will require using a Windows 10 product key or buying genuine Windows from the Windows Store. This also applies if the new installation is for an edition of Windows 10 that wasnít previously activated on the device.

If youíre reinstalling Windows 10 Insider Preview, automatic activation occurs by digital entitlement if the same edition of Windows 10 or Windows 10 Insider Preview (builds newer than 10240) was already activated on the device.

If your Microsoft account is not listed, then you can click/tap on the Microsoft account option instead under Use a different account to add it.

5. Select "Just fixes, apps, and drivers" (Release Preview), "Active development of Windows" (default - Slow or Fast), or "Skip ahead to the next Windows release" (Fast) for what kind of content would you like to receive, and click/tap on Confirm. (see screenshots below)

If you select Active development of Windows and click/tap on Confirm, you will also need to select to be in the Slow or Fast ring and click/tap on Confirm.

After youíve been an Insider for a while and tried out the latest builds, you might find that you need to opt your PC out of receiving Insider builds. There are a few reasons why you might want to opt out:

You're running a production build, meaning a general public release, and you really like it. The build is stable enough for you, and you want to stay with it and not get a potentially risky update.

The builds are making it too hard to use your device, youíre running into too many problems, and simply are no longer enjoying the experience. You want to return your PC to the operating system you were using before you became an Insider.

Youíve been receiving builds on a PC that you now need for important tasks, and you need it to be stable and not taking updates.

1. While signed in to Windows 10 with your Microsoft account, open Settings, and click/tap on the Update & security icon.

2. Click/tap on Windows Insider Program on the left side, and click/tap on the Stop Insider Preview builds button on the right side. (see screenshot below)

B) Under Options, select Disable preview builds or Disable preview builds once next release is public in the drop menu for what you want.

Selecting Disable preview builds will prevent preview builds from installing on the device. This will prevent users from opting into the Windows Insider Program, through Settings -> Update and Security.

Selecting Disable preview builds once next release is public will prevent preview builds from installing once the next Windows release is public. This option is useful when your device is set up to install preview and you want to gracefully opt out the device for flighting. This option will provide preview builds until devices reaches the next public release.

You can tell those screens are different from the one you would see now when opting to get Insider builds. When hearing about the 10525 build I couldn't anything on it at the Insider site except for the Windows Blog.

The last part about selecting the download speed can only apply to an existing Insider build you have on as you can see from the 7/29 download. I changed the updates from automatic to schedule an update since I haven't been getting notified that new ones have gone on until going to manually check to see when the latest did go on and then see the prompting to schedule or restart the system immediately.

I certainly won't have to worry about not being prepared as well as any need to get any ISO downloads at this time having both editions in both flavors waiting to see when others will be wanting their machines upgraded to 10. :)

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By default the "Feedback Frequency should also be set for automatic on the setting above that. When clicking on the Get started here I will immediately see the three screen shown in Steps 4, 5, and 6 under Option One without any problem when signed in by the MS account here.

Did you create an MS account when setting 10 up or have already to use in order to sign in with? If you are only signing in on the desktop with the local account option that will result in seeing errors since you are providing the site with any credentials to allow access. You may just have to resign in with your account to proceed any further if you do have an existing account but used the local account option to arrive at the desktop automatically not having a password or pin code assigned. I have to log out here at times when using that in order to access either the Mail app or Windows Live essentials.

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By default the "Feedback Frequency should also be set for automatic on the setting above that. When clicking on the Get started here I will immediately see the three screen shown in Steps 4, 5, and 6 under Option One without any problem when signed in by the MS account here.

Did you create an MS account when setting 10 up or have already to use in order to sign in with? If you are only signing in on the desktop with the local account option that will result in seeing errors since you are providing the site with any credentials to allow access. You may just have to resign in with your account to proceed any further if you do have an existing account but used the local account option to arrive at the desktop automatically not having a password or pin code assigned. I have to log out here at times when using that in order to access either the Mail app or Windows Live essentials.

I created a local account the first time I installed Windows 10. I created an MS account because Windows told me that I had to create one. How do I sign in with my local account again?

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If you wanted to, keep trying off an on to see if you may be able "Get started" for the builds.

You could use the tutorial below for how to switch to a local account to sign in to Windows with. Just remember, that in a local account you will not be able to use any Windows apps that use a Microsoft service unless you sign in to the Store with a Microsoft account.

I have been running Windows 10 Technical Previews on my Acer C720 for the past few weeks. Yesterday I updated to full Windows 10 (don't think it changed anything, was running 10240 before and 10240 afterwards) and I wanted to stop Insider Builds due...

This will, most likely, be the default procedure for opting out of 'Insider Preview Builds' on your copy Windows 10 Upgrade, and, not necessarily opting you out of the Insider Program per se, but this, of course, is not verified.
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I like many others have been having a problem getting my Windows Update set up to get insider builds. Even though I had signed in using my Microsoft account, I get getting the "Fix me" button which gave me a message about stopping insider builds. ...

I have my personal laptop with me at work today. It is now downloading Win10 10166, but its at about 30% and I don't think it will finish by the time I get out of work (in about 30 minutes). Can I just shut down Windows in the middle of the download...

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